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Surety bonds
munaeem | 20 November, 2007 03:44
A surety bond is a written agreement in which the surety pledges to pay the project owner for any losses if the contractor does not perform the contact. Sometimes the surety takes over and performs the agreement.You can see that a surety bind is very important piece of paper. You should approach companies who are qualified to write bonds and has good reputation in the market.
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U.S. confident on Middle East talks
munaeem | 20 November, 2007 03:41
via Reuters:
The United States said on Monday it was confident its planned Middle East conference will launch Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and that both sides will agree on a joint document to be presented there.
U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to host the meeting at Annapolis, Maryland, probably on November 27, that will kick off an attempt to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking before he leaves office in January 2009.
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Why Israel Should Begin Talking With Hamas
munaeem | 13 November, 2007 09:56
By Yvonne Ridley
November 9, 2007
I recently spoke to someone from Hamas and told them I was coming here this evening. I was very enthusiastic on several different levels and was rather crestfallen when he just sneered, shrugged his shoulders and looked singularly unimpressed.
When I pressed him and asked surely it was important for all sides to talk, he shrugged his shoulders again and then said: “Why do we need to talk? Why do we need to do anything? Time is on our side. We have waited 50 years for our country and we can wait another 50 years”.
I mentioned this to Jewish American author Dr Alice Rothchild, an amazing, compassionate woman who had just returned from the region and surprisingly she nodded in agreement.
According to Alice the so-called Zionist lobby in America is weakening by the day because young Jewish Americans no longer want to move to Israel and many want to forget about the so-called Promised Land because it was making them confront uncomfortable ideas about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. A case of the abused becoming the abuser is simply too unpleasant for some jewish people to contemplate.
But while it appears a growing number of young Jewish people from the West are content to remain in the West, the millions of young Palestinians living around the world are growing in their determination to return and demand the right to return to Palestine.
So you see, this could be why Hamas in particular and other Palestinians aren’t that bothered about talking to people who have no wish to talk to them or even discuss the notion of the right to return which could be demanded by as many as 7 million Palestinians.
May be 50 years down the line no one but the Palestinians will really care about the return.
As a journalist, I am deeply saddened by the censorship by omission which runs deep in western media coverage on Israel, especially in the US.
Hamas is dismissed as a “terrorist group sworn to Israel’s destruction” and one that “refuses to recognise Israel and wants to fight not talk”.
The truth is that Israel is bent on Palestine’s destruction. Moreover, Hamas’s long-standing proposals for a ten-year ceasefire are loudly ignored, along with a recent, ideological shift within Hamas itself that amounts to a historic acceptance of the sovereignty of Israel.
“The [Hamas] charter is not the Quran,” said a senior Hamas official, Mohammed Ghazal. “Historically, we believe all Palestine belongs to Palestinians, but we’re talking now about reality, about political solutions... If Israel reached a stage where it was able to talk to Hamas, I don’t think there would be a problem of negotiating with the Israelis [for a solution].”
The very fact that Israel is mentioned in the Hamas charter is surely proof in itself that Hamas recognizes the Zionist state.
Someone I spoke to who is very keen to see the Israeli political leaders sit down and talk with Hamas is former Tory Government minister Michael Ancram – this is the politician who sat down and began talking to the IRA on behalf of the British Government months before anyone knew what was happening behind the scenes.
When news leaked out what was happening he was pilloried and told he had blood on his hands. Some people said he was contaminated and Unionists refused to speak to him.
The talks continued – even though some of the bombing continued which piled huge pressure and personal angst on Michael Ancram.
But, if he had any doubts then that he was doing the right thing he must look at the long term result today and be very comforted by the growing peace in Ireland, and an environment where Gerry Adams can work amicably alongside Ian Paisley.
Part of the trouble is that the history of Israel has often been portrayed as the triumph over tragedy of a people marked for extinction … the people who emerged from Nazi death camps to establish their own country in 1948.
I am not a Holocaust denier and nor do I want to play down the horrors and sufferings of European Jews, but the Holocaust Industry as described by Professor Norman Finkelstein does tend to protect and fireproof Israel against the charge of a devastating colonization by falsifying history and denying the awful future with which it now challenges the Jews, the West and the Muslim world.
The Zionists have now managed to shoehorn themselves into a space between two historical enemies, the capitalist West and Islam, and by using the strength of the former against the latter, it has created and nurtured fertile conditions for a conflict that is growing by the day.
But if my good friend from Hamas and Dr Alice Rothchild are right, then time really is on the side of the Palestinians and not the architects of Zionism or the Zionist state. They would have us believe that the emergence of Israel is a sensational triumph of good over evil, the evil coming from Europe's centuries-old anti-Semitism, in particular the demonic Nazi master plan to wipe out the Jewish people.
Theodore Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, was convinced that Zionism would only thrive if anti-Semitic Europe could be persuaded to push for its success. It is true that Jews and anti-Semites have been historical enemies, that Jews have been the victims of Europe's religious witchunt since Rome became Christianity’s capital.
While Arabs and Jews have lived in harmony over the centuries, the hate and suspicion towards Jewish people has always come from the West.
So, for the Zionist project to succeed, a new enemy, common to the West and the Jews would have to be created. In choosing to locate their colonial-settler state in Palestine - and not in Uganda or Argentina as once mooted - the Zionists created a bogeyman that would deepen their partnership with the West.
The Islamic world was a great deal more likely to ignite the West's imperialist and evangelical designs than Uganda or Argentina.
And so, Israel became the west’s watchdog right in the heart of the Islamic world; guarding over the strategic crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe.
And so it sits today, monitoring developments in the Gulf with its vast reserves of oil and gas. For the West as well as Europe's Jews, this was an opportunity to monopolise.
Without the help of the West, there is no way the Zionists could not have created Israel on their own.
The net effect has been to humiliate the Muslim world, making each new generation more resentful than the last.
And with US puppets, dictators and despots placed to lead Islamic countries this has further driven Muslims to embrace increasingly radical ideas and methods to recover a lost dignity and power.
Watching Arab leaders bow and scrape before Israel to please their western masters, as the Palestinians are enduring a slow genocide, has been too much for some to endure.
The roots of 9/11 are buried deep in the soil of the Middle East along with Bali, Madrid and the London bombings.
The net result has been to drive the West into a direct confrontation against the Islamic world. We in the West are now staring deep into an abyss.
Hamas might not want to sit down with Israel but it is in Israel and the West’s interests that the Knesset realizes that it must sit down and negotiate with Hamas.
And the first thing Israel needs to do is cut out its victim mentality and the pointless invective about terrorism.
As we all know one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. We all know Margaret Thatcher called Nelson Mandela a terrorist and we all know what Ian Paisley thought of his new best friend Gerry Adams a few years ago.
And before any of you continue to cite terrorism as a counter argument for not sitting down and talking to Hamas it might be worth remembering that the first aircraft hijacking was carried out by Israel in 1954 against a Syrian civilian airliner.
Grenades in cafes were first used by Zionists against Palestinians in Jerusalem on 17 March 1937.
Delayed-action, electrically timed mines in crowded marketplaces were first used by Zionists against Palestinians in Haifa on 6 July 1938.
Blowing up a ship with its civilian passengers still on board was first carried out by Zionists in Haifa on 25 November 1940. The Zionists did not hesitate to blow up their own people in protest at the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine. The ship, Patria, was carrying 1,700 Jewish immigrants.
Blowing up of government offices with their civilian employees and visitors was first carried out by the Zionists against the British in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946. The toll was 91 Britons killed and 46 wounded in the King David Hotel. Menachim Begin, who masterminded and carried out the attack and later became Israeli prime minister, admitted that the massacre was coordinated with and carried out under the instruction of the Haganah.
Letter bombs sent to politicians was first used by the Zionists against Britain when 20 letter bombs were sent from Italy to London between 4 and 6 June 1947.
I could go on – but I won’t.
Israel really needs to sit down and talk with Hamas … if for nothing more than to secure its own long term future.
Yvonne Ridley is a political analyst on Middle East and Asian affairs, as well as a presenter for The Agenda show on Press TV. Her website is: www.yvonneridley.org
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munaeem | 10 November, 2007 01:55
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Muslims should try to influence others by their character not by dictation.
munaeem | 08 November, 2007 01:38
via CAIR:
A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today urged GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani to reconsider his acceptance of the endorsement of a controversial televangelist known for scathing attacks on Muslims and Islam.
In a news release on his campaign website, Giuliani is quoted as saying he is "encouraged" by the endorsement of Pat Robertson, chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). "His experience and advice will be a great asset to me and my campaign," said Giuliani.
On his "700 Club" program, Robertson has repeatedly defamed Islam and Muslims. He called Muslims "satanic," claimed the Quran, Islam's revealed text, is "fraudulent" and said Islam is "a monumental scam."
CAIR should pay attention to the well-being of Muslim community. They should not embroil themselves in politics.
Muslims should try to influence others by their character not by dictation.
Why did Musharraf impose emergency despite American oppostion?
munaeem | 03 November, 2007 19:26
President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency despite American opposition and threats. He suspended the constitution and removed the Chief Justice Iftiqar. He has appointed a new chief and high court justices of the provinces. It is shocking to know none of these justices opposed him and took oath under new PCO.
Critics are saying he has angered Americans and will face suspension of the billions of dollars of military and economic aid.
In opinion, he imposed the American rule after consultation with the Bush Administration. Officially, Americans gave statements showing displeasure over his actions.
Americans were also unhappy with the Chief Justice Iftiqar because had released many high profile al-qaeda suspects. Recently he had ordered the government to release all the missing persons by November 13.
Faisal The Fox
munaeem | 02 November, 2007 14:59
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
02 November, 2007
Countercurrents.org
It is hard to image the foreign minister of a third world country more capable of hypocrisy than Mr. Bush - but, without a doubt, Prince Saud al-Faisal takes the prize for being the more obnoxious of the two. Such insincerity and double-standards must surely make Mr. Bush feel inclined to ask himself if he got short-changed by having Rove as his ‘brain’ – or perhaps Mr. Bush has a prince as the new ‘brain’.
Reports have it that Saudi Arabia has called on Iran to respond to an Arab proposal for a joint uranium enrichment plant outside the Middle East which would ‘satisfy Tehran’s demands for nuclear technology and diffuse tensions’ . Perhaps the Saudis can propose this because their own plans have never been leaked.
According to documents released from the British National Archives under the 30 year rule (dated December 12, 1973 and marked 'UK Eyes Alpha', it was revealed that after the 1973 war “ [that] British intelligence believed the United States was ready to take military action," i.e. invade, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in 1973 "to prevent further disruption to oil supplies" and "to secure control of their oil fields." (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1018971.htm).
The jittery Saudis offered to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq’s Osirak-reactor destructed by Israel in 1981 (funds that helped Saddam in the Iraq-Iran war, no doubt). As late as 1985 Iraqi and Saudi military and nuclear experts were co-operating closely, this included sending Saudi nuclear scientists to Baghdad for months of training.
Between 1985 and 1990, up to the time Saddam invaded Kuwait, the payments were made on condition that some of the bombs be transferred to the Saudi arsenal. Muhammad Khilewi, the second-in-command of the Saudi mission to the United Nations Khilewi, provide a cache which included transcripts of a secret desert meeting between Saudi and Iraqi military teams a year before the invasion of Kuwait. The transcripts depict the Saudis funding the nuclear program and handing over specialized equipment that Iraq could not have obtained elsewhere.
What Khilewi did not know was that the Fahd-Saddam nuclear project was also a closely held secret in Washington. According to a former high-ranking American diplomat, the CIA was fully apprised. The funding stopped only at the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991. The defector's documents also showed that Riyadh had paid for Pakistan's bomb project and signed a pact that if Saudi Arabia were attacked with nuclear weapons, Pakistan would respond against the aggressor with its own nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the CIA was aware of this could explain why Khilewi was not granted federal protection when he abandoned his UN post and became an opponent in late June 1994 even though he had brought with him more than 10,000 documents he obtained from the Saudi Arabian Embassy. Nor does it explain why the United States did not push for investigation of these activities, although it does explain why the Saudis are so eager to use Iran’s legal civilian program as a diversionary tactic and in spite of their own track record, would want Iran to renounce its legal rights.
It is also important to be reminded that Saudi Arabia played an important role in encouraging war in the region. Bob Woodard (State of Denial) explains the Saudi role during his interview on ‘60 minutes’. “Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, ‘So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?’ And Cheney - who has said nothing - says the following: ‘Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast.’" “Bandar understood that economic conditions were key before a presidential election: “They’re [oil prices] high. And they could go down very quickly. That's the Saudi pledge. Certainly over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly.”
Indeed, after having paid for nuclear bombs and arming Sunni insurgents to the teeth in Iraq to kill Americans and underdmine the legitimate Shiite government, is it plausible that the Saudis now want to turn over a new leaf and be the business of ‘peace-making’ instead of the lucrative business of say – Carlyle and the like? After all, G.W. Bush has armed them to the teeth – not to forget the arms purchased from Britain at the cost of ‘shared values’ – that is for Britain to expel Saudi progressive thinkers who were pro-democracy. However, before giving up the rights of other sovereign nations, it would be worthwhile recalling a few things that Iran has had to endure while defending her rights.
While the Saudis were secretly working to acquire a bomb, Iran was openly exercising her right under the NPT to have nuclear energy. Each time, the United States used its economic domination and stopped Iran from restarting its civilian nuclear project. In 1982, the president of Iran at the time, approached Kraftwerk Union who had left their contract with Iran incomplete after the 1979 revolution and asked them to complete the Bushehr power plant project. Under US pressure, they refused and would not even deliver the reactor component to Iran. Citing a 1982 International Commerce Commission (ICC) ruling a lawsuit was filed which remains unsettled . This pattern has been repeated until Iran started its cooperation with Russia. However, given the decades of hardship, sanctions, and investment Iran has put into its civilian nuclear program, it would seem rather generous on the part of the Saudis to take it away from Iran and give it to all Arab States in Switzerland.
Perhaps one thing that has escaped Prince Saud al-Faisal, is that Iranian are defending their right and their integrity. It is possible that a few in the Muslim world will see this as good will gesture, but what is more important to Iran and any nation that values sovereignty, is the reality that in order to escape colonialism, a nation-state must be self-sufficient. Iran has reached that stage – it has shed the shackles of colonialism and is free. A country that has been isolated for so almost three decades has taken 5th place in the ‘British Invention Show’ . This fact speaks not only to the talent of the nation, but what it can achieve. Does the Prince suggest that Iran should capitulate and allow others to fish for it when it can fish so very well for itself?
